Ticket #6898: d--WHY-OLD

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1I know some people are going to point and laugh because I'm running an
2old version. Personally, I don't care. But I'm explaining why, here,
3because I want this patch to be considered seriously regardless, even
4though I won't have a tested version for trunk before the feature
5freeze window closes. And I'm doing it here because having this
6hashed out on the list is just a distraction.
7
8Note that, once 0.22 comes out, I'll probably transition to it.
9Eventually. But not today.
10
11So why am I running such an old version, namely 0.18.1? Because it
12works for me:
13(a) This system is used as part of a research project. It's in
14 production. There is a ton of scaffolding written around it.
15 Disturbing that could disturb a lot of other things.
16(b) I only ever record SD, never HD, and display it using a PVR-350
17 on an actual interlaced, analog, SD CRT. Later versions tend to
18 want to speak OpenGL and use widescreen themes. Now that 0.22
19 will support VDPAU, and hence perhaps deinterlacers that look as
20 good as my native interlaced, I might start running it. But only
21 if it still supports my existing SDTV setup, of course, if I can
22 find a card that can output interlaced and looks as good.
23(c) Upgrading MythTV is very tricky for a production system, since:
24 (1) You can't ever go backwards.
25 (2) You need real hardware to test with.
26 (3) Some bugs are intermittent and won't manifest immediately.
27 This means, by the time you know you're in trouble, you're
28 screwed, unless you'd like to dump everything Myth's recorded
29 since the upgrade. Or unless you have a completely separate set
30 of hardware (including tuners! and cable boxes!) to run your test
31 with. So upgrading is only worth the pain and potential hassles
32 if it offers clear advantages. For what -I- do, so far, 0.18.1's
33 been good enough. Sometime soon, I'll jump to 0.22 when I can do
34 so without disturbing my production setup and then test it very
35 thoroughly before cutting over. That day has not yet arrived.